nautilus location bar no longer recognizes ~ as /home/username

[Reed Lipman]

Binary package hint: nautilus

TEST CASE:
1. open nautilus and enter '~' into the address bar see you get an error window
2. now install nautilus from maverick-proposed and see /home dir opens

In lucid, entering ~ in the address bar took you to $HOME. This isn't recognized in maverick, instead trying to take you to the relative path ./~

Steps to reproduce:
Navigate to /bin
In address bar, type ~

Error is "Could not find /~, please check the spelling and try again"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.31.90-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 4 18:43:04 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Confirmed on Maverick Beta.

[Reed Lipman (rmlipman)]

I submitted a patch upstream, but just in case I'm attaching it here as well.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

So 10.10 is out and ~ is still broken. Unfortunate because it was real helpful to use in instructions to clueless users who didn't know what their home folder is.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

is fixed in Natty with nautilus 2.32.2.1-0ubuntu1

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Subscribed sponsors.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you, I've rebased the changelog on the current version and upload, it will need to wait for the current proposed version to go in -updates before going in though

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted nautilus into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Jake Tolbert (crazybilly)]

Just updated from maverick-proposed. The test seems to be working great. If I run into any other problems with it, I'll post further--for now, it seems to be working great.

Great work, very much appreciated here.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.3

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nautilus (1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.3) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/100_dont_treat_tilda_as_a_relative_path.patch: (LP: #630512)
    - Open the user's home dir when '~' is entered into the address bar.
 -- Omer Akram <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:35:02 +0500